Public Speaking

I like to talk about my art and other things. 

If you’d like me to speak at your event, please read the Terms and Conditions, then get in touch.

Past Talks

Date	Event	Location	Title	Media
22 July 2022	Blue Dot Festival	Jodrell Bank	The Truth, Post-Truth & Nothing Like The Truth	–
3 November 2021	Brighton Digital Festival	Online	WTF is NFT?	video
21 July 2021	Brighton Data Forum	Brighton	Trust me, I’m not a bot…	video
4 July 2019	Dorkbot London	London	Fake it ’til you make it – creating digital lies	–
14 July 2019	PyData London	London	The anatomy of a #deepfake	–
1 Sep 2018	Electromagnetic Field	Eastnor	The Truth, Post-Truth & Nothing Like The Truth	video
28 July 2018	Lunar Festival	Tanworth in Arden	The Truth, Post-Truth & Nothing Like The Truth
9 Feb 2018	Devonshire Collective	Eastbourne	The Truth, Post-Truth & Nothing Like The Truth	video
14 May 2017	Cosmic Trigger Sunday Salon	London	Confessions of an Operation Mindfuck operative
26 Nov 2016	Hexagram 23 – Breaking Apart	Northampton	kicking against the pricks
23 July 2016	Festival 23	Brighton	Art, Magick & Adventures in ideaspace
12 May 2016	Adventures at the edge of culture	Brighton	Adventures in ideaspace	video
9 Apr 2016	Bot Summit	V&A London	What is it like to be a bot?	video
19 Nov 2015	Future Visions	London	Algorithms, Art & Authenticity
23 Sept 2015	Let’s get real	Brighton	Release the wasps	video
19 Sept 2015	Next Day Better	London	Who owns your identity?
21 Aug 2015	Dorkbot	Bristol	Adventures in Algo-culture
9 July 2015	BBC IRFS	London	Adventures in algo-culture
20 June 2015	#pydata London	London	Keynote: What’s it Like to be a Bot?	video
19 March 2015	Publishing Innovation	London	Adventures in algo-culture
11 March 2015	11th European Trend Day	Zurich	Your new best friend is a robot
20 Jan 2015	Digital Utopias	Hull	tl;dr;	audio/slides
3 Dec 2014	mySociety	Brighton	We are all data now
23 Sept 2014	Creative Data Club	London	Your new best friend is a robot
19 Sept 2014	Silicon Beach	Bournemouth	Your new best friend is a robot	video
12 Sept 2014	Supercrawl	Hamilton, Canada	Your new best friend is a robot
23 Feb 2014	#pydata London	London	You give me data, I give you art	video

selection of previous talks

Terms & Conditions

(borrowed from Marcus John Henry Brown)

I’m often asked to perform or speak at conferences and festivals for free. I don’t as a general rule and then spend ages having to explain to a disgruntled event organiser why this is. My scorecard for speaking at conferences/festivals is short and straightforward: two rules that every event must adhere to if they want me to come and perform. Here they are:

1. There must be at least one woman speaker on stage.

I will gladly forfeit my place in the lineup to ensure that this happens. I will also need to see the running order beforehand to make sure that you’ve managed this. Having female speakers on the stage is mandatory and non-negotiable. A female moderator does not constitute a female speaker.

2. I expect to be paid. As Jay Z once said: “I’m not a businessman, I’m a business, man”. If you’re not paying your speakers, then I’m not the person for you. I invest a tremendous amount of time, resources and money in my performances – they are not only labours of love but art products, and if you want them, then you’re going to have to pay for them.

I will, however, consider waiving my fee if you can guarantee 50% diversity: that is to say that half of your speakers are not male, white and heterosexual.

These are my terms and conditions. So I hope that clears that up. If you’ve come here because you’ve asked me to perform at your event, then I hope you’ll agree to these terms. They’re not complicated, unreasonable or daft, are they? They’re not heroic either just common sense.

If you do think that they are unreasonable, then you should have a long hard look at why you’re staging the event in the first place.